I have been using an HTC s710 Windows Mobile Smartphone since May 2007. I really love the concept of the sliding keyboard, which allows me to use this phone as a mobile email workstation. You can get quite fast at typing at this keyboard. Since November 2007 I am actually using two of them, one private and one from my employer.

The bad news: both of them suffer from random freezes, shutdowns and restarts. The first one started having this behavior after slightly more than a year, the second one after 5-6 months. Searching online reveals that I am not the only one suffering from this kind of behavior with this phone.

I got so frustrated with this that I decided (temporarily) to move back to my old Nokia 6230i. I am loosing a lot of functionality with this, but realibility is number 1 on my list of desired features …..

So, where do i go from here? Nokia N95, iPhone?, Nokia E71? Phone and Email are my two most important applications. I am using Emoze for pushing my email account, so this should be available on my future phone. Selection process has started Any tips and suggestions are more than welcome!